17.7 miles to Wethersfield Cove Boat Launch The camp spot on King Island is lovely. It is maintained by the Appalachian Mountain Club with funding from REI. It has two large tent platforms, plenty of flat places for a tent like mine and another great moldering privy. But what I really found spectacular were the…

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The Enfield Rapids to King Island 5.1 miles from the Connecticut state line to King IslandTotal for day was 16.3 miles I felt alert but fairly calm as I passed under the bridge which was the starting point for the portage around the old Enfield dam. I was river left and committed to running it.…

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11.2 miles From Holyoke Rows to the Connecticut state lineTotal for day was 16.3 miles to King Island in Connecticut I spent as much of the night awake as I did sleeping. There was a skunk who kept scratching at my tent door. I did not want it to eat a hole in my tent,…

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15.7 miles to the Holyoke Rows community rowing facility https://www.holyokerows.org/Those miles include the truck portage around the Holyoke Dam I started the morning with a great conversation with Tarin about rocks. She teaches geology at a local college and I loved learning more about the local geology. Over a wonderful breakfast Tad told me about…

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20.2 miles to Sportsman’s Marina just past the Calvin Coolidge Bridge I spent a bit of a restless night. There was a train yard not too far upriver and a number of times throughout the night I was awaken by some tremendous banging of train cars. On top of that it was a hot and…

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2.2 miles (plus forty three by bike) from Poplar Street Access to Hatchery Brook Campsite It was about three PM when I launched from the southern end of the Turners Falls Dam portage. I was now paddling through the traditional homeland of the Pocumtuck peoples. Like other native peoples, the Pocumtuck never received compensation for…

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